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OK, a couple of things: First, about our role as political janitors, Biden won the 2020 election (yes he did) by promising a return to normalcy. That only works when things are really, really fucked up.
The government in this country shares something with attorneys: right up until the point when they are absolutely necessary, people love to hate them. When you really need legal assistance, a competent attorney is just this side of a goddamn magician. Intractable difficulties melt away in a cloud of timely documents filed at the correct offices.
The government? Just have a stroke upend your whole existence and see what your position on the US government is. Those, though, are extreme (not rare) circumstances, and everyone else fucking loves to hate them both.
That, to my way of thinking, is why we don't have a president Harris right now. Sure, the policies she was offering were good, but they were the government, and getting meatheads to hate the government is easy.
So not only are we morally stuck cleaning up the awful damage these creeps do to regular people's lives, we are also bound to be hated for it just as soon as those messes are halfway cleaned up, because we are the damn government.
I know this is sort of silly, but I also know it's fucking true.
Fergus very well may fuck up the ordinary lives of enough people to get us in office on the backlash again, but that's not a serviceable political strategy going forward, unless we want an endless cycle of all of our gains being undone every four fucking years.
What to do about it? I don't know, but being aware of it while planning our presidential campaigns is a good place to start.
And second: Hank Green made a video where he said, basically, the bitch fight isn't the story, the corruption is the story. In that video he said something simple that I feel bears repeating: Fergus and Elmo, in their constant grifting, are willing to destroy far more value than they end up collecting, and that value had belonged to us, not them.
Thank you again for the podcast.
And finally, when Fergus got elected, one of the things I said to myself was "Well, the country's gonna get buggered, but it might be worth some good songs." And right on time comes the Dropkick Murphys with an anthem to our specific political moment, complete with images of people being caught in black hoods, black roses, and rock and roll bagpipes. "Who'll stand with us?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BRHuiRyVEE
Think of the song Ohio, and you're getting warm.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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